North Korea warned this week that it might test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, after saying the country had already successfully detonated one. A hydrogen bomb has never be ...

The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

At 8.15 am on August 6, 1945, the 'Little Boy' exploded in Hiroshima, changing the fate of its people for years. Dropped by the American Boeing B-29 bomber Enola Gay, the uranium-based gun-type bomb ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

Toshiaki Nakagawa echoes a belief shared by many older people in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. As the son of a Hibakusha, those who survived the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan, he knows the ...

The trip will come a full 42 years after the first Presidential trip to Japan drew calls for a visit to Hiroshima as well. But, despite generally positive relations between the two nations in the last ...

“We are now ab0ut 2 hrs from bombs away,” Lewis, 26, wrote as the B-29 approached the Japanese city it was about to destroy. “The bomb is now alive. And it’s a funny feeling knowing it’s right in back ...

A photographic exhibition at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London explores “Hiroshima’s experience as history’s first nuclear target.” The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (HawaiiNewsNow) - As we mark 80 years since the end of World War II, Hawaii News Now is taking a closer look at Hawaii’s unique bond with Japan through its sister city relationships.

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. That first-ever use of an atomic weapon killed an estimated 140,000 people in all, most of whom were civilians. Three ...